by Colin Thompson | Jan 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Not all the Mount Gambier Motor Cycle and Light Car Club activities revolved around racing, casual rides often being enjoyed too. This is a Kevin Lock photo and in the 1958 photo left to right most of the participants are named – they are as recorded: Peter...
by Colin Thompson | Jan 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
One hundred and ten years ago (1913) according to Sth Australian registration records there were 42 motorcycles registered locally, bringing the total to 122 motorcycles registered in Mount Gambier. Adelaide manufacturer Lewis Cycle Works had a depot here and were...
by Colin Thompson | Jan 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Laurie Walter Fox, AOM, would have been 96 years old today. He died in December 2017, aged 90. He was a racer, achieving success on sidecars and solo, an administrator, official, journalist, businessman, loving family man and an all round great bloke. Picture is of...
by Colin R Thompson | Jan 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mount Gambier has had many sidecar aces two of whom died while racing. Ian Hogg died at Bathurst in April 1972 riding his Manx Norton. Ian’s son Colin, who lives in New Zealand, has informed me his father’s racing outfit which had been restored by...
by Colin R Thompson | Jan 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Chatted to one of the gentlemen of the Mount Gambier Motorcycle & Light Car Club recently, Mr Kevin Lock. Kevin rode at the Borderline Speedway as a rider and a sidecar passenger for the late John Smith. Kevin was also a keen photographer and gave me access to...
by Colin R Thompson | Dec 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
G’day! When I was writing my books on our motorcycle history I often came across the name Owen Land. By all accounts, verbal and written, Owen was a real character. I recounted in Volume 2 of Potholes a good story of Owen being pursued by an officer of the law...
